Your paint dries, the canvas smiles,with two eyes you lift yourself up.Stroke your skin, there are teeth marks to be sure.Maybe we’re best close to the ground.Maybe angels drag us down.I wonder which part of this will leave the scar.

Dip your hands in colourswhile the young night flutters in on you andfinger paint me pictures of all you see.No matter what they say, you’ll always befaithfully dangerous, lost and lovely,so beautiful to me.I’m not too blind to see.

Red is blood. Black is sky.White’s the dove that longs to fly.You set it free and it beats its wings in me.It leaves us at a loss for words.Is that me now in your arms?We cradle together and fall down on our knees.

Let the whole world drift downstream.We’ll always be different.Swim the silent slipstream inside of me.No matter what they say, you’ll always befaithfully dangerous, lost and lovely,so beautiful to me.I’m not too blind to see.

Red is blood. Black is sky.White’s the dove that longs to fly.You set it free and it beats its wings in me.It leaves us at a loss for words.Is that me now in your arms?We cradle together and fall down on our knees.

The heart that beats is yours inside me.Red is love. Black is night.I’m drunk with angels taking flight.The heart that beats is yours inside me.The heart that beats is yours inside me.The heart that beats is yours.

2. Spark

It's not the spark that caused the fireIt was the air you breathed that fanned the flameWhat you think you'll solve with violenceWill only spread like a diseaseUntil it all comes 'round againWas John the only dreamer?

Sleep with one ear close to the groundAnd wake up screamingWhen we lay our cold weapons downWe'll wake up dreaming

Obsessions with self-preservationFaded when I threw my fear awayIt's not a thing you can imagine

You either lose your fearOr spend your life with one foot in the graveIs God the last romantic?

Sleep with one ear close to the groundAnd wake up screamingWhen we lay our cold weapons downWe'll wake up dreaming

Only love can turn this aroundI wake up dreamingEverything we've lost can be foundWe'll wake up dreaming

3. Born

I was born to laughI learned to laugh through my tearsI was born to loveI'm gonna learn to love without fear

Pour me a glass of wineTalk deep into the nightWho knows what we'll find

Hush now babyOne day we’re gonna rideHush now babyOur white horse through the sky

Bring me a white horse for ChristmasWe’ll ride him through the snowAll the way to Bethlehem2000 years ago

I wanna speak with the angelWho said do not be afraidI wanna kneel where the oxen kneltWhere the little child was laid

Hush now babyOne day you’re gonna rideHush now babyYour white horse through the sky

No bridle will he be wearingHis unshod hoofs they will flyKeep a watch out this ChristmasFor that white horse in the sky

Hush now babyOne day we’re gonna rideHush now babyOur white horse through the sky

Hush now babyLet every angel singHush now babyOne day we’ll ride again

7. Etcetera Whatever

Don’t speak.Words come out your eyes.You’re wet with this nightmare.Like thorns you hold these secrets to your breast,your slender fingers closing into fists.

Trace your bruiselike a guilty streak.Hold the pain.You’re a connoisseur.You think you have no other gift to give,but we have so much left to live.

We don’t need a lot of money.We’ll be sleeping on the beach,keeping oceans within reach.(Whatever private oceans we can conjure up for free.)I will stumble there with youand you’ll be laughing close with me,trying not to make a sceneetcetera. Whatever. I guess all I really mean

is we’re gonna be alright.Yeah, we’re gonna be alright.You can close your eyes tonight,‘cause we’re gonna be alright.

So come on now,I can almost seethat placeon a distant shore.And courage is a weapon we must useto find some life you can’t refuse.

We don’t need a lot of money.We’ll be sleeping on the beach,keeping oceans within reach.(Whatever private oceans we can conjure up for free.)I will stumble there with youand you’ll be laughing close with me,trying not to make a sceneetcetera. Whatever. I guess all I really mean

is we’re gonna be alright.Yeah, we’re gonna be alright.You can close your eyes tonight,‘cause we’re gonna be alright.All that I can see is your eyes.Close your eyes.Close your eyes.

8. Fever

9. Son of a Preacher Man

10. Moondance

11. My Love is a Fever Again

12. Paper Moon

Live from Nowhere, Volume 1 CD (signed and numbered by Linford & Karin) will be mailed to you in March 2006, packed full of highlights from the 2005 (December 17th) Over the Rhine Homecoming Concert at the Taft Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as bonus material from a special December 18th performance. SOLD OUT; No longer available.

(Due to various lengthy, earnest letters, not unlike this one, which we received from those who weren’t able to get a copy, we are making Volume One available digitally at I-Tunes etc. But the real, signed, numbered copies of Volume One are no longer available.)